Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters ...

Despite a growing interest in biological activities of natural products that contain the bicyclo[4.2.0]octadiene ring system such as SNF 4435 C and SNF 4435 D, an asymmetric version of 8??, 6?? electrocyclization has ...

This thesis studies a class of model-based randomized algorithms for solving general optimization problems. These are iterative algorithms that sample from and update an underlying distribution over the feasible solution ...

Nowadays, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been widely used in analysis of various biological data for both smoothing and clustering. However, characterizing each hidden state by a single distribution, the classical HMM might ...

DNA copy number change and epigenetic alteration often induce abnormal RNA expression level and have been linked to the development and progression of cancer. While various methods have been proposed for studying microarray ...

The stock market behavior we often see is not well understood even for disciplined traders. Stock market speculation often seems to be an arena for the financially suicidal. The work of Jesse Livermore brings some order ...